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Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...
Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, and a bet on the one whose name you liked. Writing in Practical Punting in September 2000, Richard Hartley Jnr...
Track conditions and weight are the two Australian horse racing form factors most punters skim over — "the in-a-hurry punters of modern day racing", as Richard Hartley Jnr put it in Practical Punti...
Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, half the field circled, and still no idea which one to back. Writing in Practical Punting Magazine, Richard Ha...
Most of a Saturday card is not worth studying — which is why Australian horse racing form study starts with picking the race, not the horse. Writing in Practical Punting in June 2000, Richard Ha...
Before you rate a single horse, Australian horse racing form study starts with a question about the race itself: is it even worth analysing? Writing in Practical Punting in May 2000, Richard Hartle...
Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...
The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...
Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...
In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...
The West Aussies are coming...Melbourne's spring is likely to be enlivened by some good horses from WA. One of them is Grp I winning Perth star Luckygray. He stamped himself a spring carnival conte...
The build-up to the 2013 Spring Racing Carnival continues with the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) announcing general admission tickets for the 2013 Melbourne Cup Carnival are now available through Ti...
Worrying trend? The number of interstate visitors who came for Melbourne's spring carnival last year fell by 13.5 per cent, from 65,419 to 56,595. In all, there were more than 78,000 out-of-state v...
It's a winner...The VRC is beating the drum for the Melbourne spring carnival and its ability to drag in mega-millions. It says the spring carnival provides a major stimulus to Victoria and Austral...
Will Mike Moroney be a big player in this year's Melbourne spring carnival? Well, he's looking good right now. A few members of his team can certainly lay claim to being spring prospects. Firstly, ...
MELBOURNE’S Cup carnival impact is extending way beyond the racetracks . The economic benefit to the Victoria economy, driven through the spring carnival, value-added contribution to Victoria...
RACING Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey believes the introduction of padded whips and restricted use of them, which comes into force on Saturday at Caulfield, will face its greatest test at this...
Feature spring carnival sprint races beckon star Toowoomba sprinter Temple of Boom following his emphatic win in Sat's $151,000 Group Three Aurie's Star Handicap (1200m) at Flemington. The win was ...
Back in business...Chris Munce has been granted a licence to ride in Victoria following the end of his controversial suspension by the Hong Kong Jockey Club. The popular jockey will be free to take...
Italian import Sneak A Peek is back in work for trainer Peter Moody